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🕑 1 hour 11 minutes

Shlomit Lir is a writer, editor, and researcher at the University of Haifa, specializing in the politics of knowledge. Since 2024, she has been a public critic of Wikipedia, especially relating to its coverage of Israel.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• "The Bias Against Israel on Wikipedia" (2024 report for the World Jewish Congress)
• 2025 X post by Shlomit about then-candidate for the WMF Board of Trustees Ravan al-Taie
• "Smear Campaign Against Ravan, Wikimedia Foundation BoT Candidate" (response post by several Wikimedians)
• Larry Sanger's "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"
• "How Wikipedia's Pro-Hamas Editors Hijacked the Israel-Palestine Narrative" (2024 Pirate Wires article by Ashley Rindsberg)
• "Manipulated History" (2025 document for the World Jewish Congress)